Lessons of the 1969 Student Strikes in the Philippines
1969 opened with an explosion of student strikes in Manila, a bellwether of the brief, heady epoch of storm and dictatorship that followed.
PhilippineHistory
A collection of 10 posts
Stalinist apologetics and intellectual charlatanry: a response to Teo Marasigan
In the final analysis, Marasigan’s argument amounts to the claim that Joseph Stalin was right, and the CPP is correct in continuing his political legacy.
Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: the revolution diffused
An eruption of protests and violence — molotov cocktails and gunfire — in the streets of Manila, launched the heady, charged days of January to March 1970.
Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: People’s Marches and the end of the FQS
Prevented from gathering in Miranda, the mass dissent turned to marches, but by the end of its third month, with no clear political goal, the storm blew itself out.
Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: the People’s Congresses of February
Mass social outrage began to take organized political form, as protestors repeatedly gathered en masse at Plaza Miranda over the course of February 1970 for a series of “People’s Congresses.”